“If I have a certain amount of power and I’m able to create a platform for some young creative people who don’t feel that they have as much power or value, that’s a conversation I’m very interested in,” Bradford told ArtReview in October. Parallel to his exhibition at Hauser & Wirth Hong Kong, the artist collaborated with young people involved with Bridge+ Living Art Space, a community centre in the Sham Shui Po neighbourhood, working with them to make a mural. Bradford introduced these students to his distinct brand of political abstraction: vast canvases of collage and paint incorporating aesthetics referencing the posters, products and materials of the Los Angeles neighbourhoods he grew up in. Such is Bradford’s vision of the ‘artist as citizen’: in 2013, he cofounded the nonprofit Art + Practice in South Los Angeles, and for the past eight years (starting in the leadup to representing the United States at the 2017 Venice Biennale) the artist has collaborated with Venetian nonprofit Rio Terà dei Pensieri, which provides employment to those currently or recently incarcerated in the Veneto region.